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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Oral Language

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A collection of videos, articles for parents and teachers, webcasts for teachesr, and research briefs on helping children develop their oral language skills.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Proper Nouns and Daily Oral Language

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart focuses on proper nouns and contains Daily Oral Language activities as well as Activote questions.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Daily Oral Language

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains Daily Oral Language sentences that are intended to be corrected by students.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Christmas Daily Oral Language

For Teachers 6th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson covers Daily Oral Language with a Christmas theme.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Voice of Witness: A Sudanese Refugee's Oral History

For Students 7th - 8th
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each text is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see the...
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Reading Basics: Sounds of Speech

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Sounds of speech are the sounds that make up our oral language. Children must understand how speech sounds work to be ready for instruction in reading and writing. To learn more about sounds of speech, browse the articles, parent tips,...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Second Grade Daily Oral Language

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will demonstrate their ability to find and correct: grammar errors, capitalization errors, and punctuation errors.
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Workforce Education: Understanding Language Registers: Effective Communication

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The use of the appropriate language register or level of formality in a given situation can make the difference between a speaker's success or failure. This lesson teaches students to recognize a range of language registers and the...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Plath, Personification, and Figurative Language

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This project based activity will use Sylvia Plath's poem, "Mirror", to examine the use of personification and figurative language. The activity may also incorporate the use of technology to produce a multimedia project. This allows...
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TESL Journal

The Internet Tesl Journal: Software Language Learning

For Students 9th - 10th
A great article providing info and stats about the use of presentation software to enhance classroom leaning, specifically in ESL classrooms. Includes detailed comparisons to traditional presentation methods (oral, word processing) and...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Storytelling:the Meaning Behind the Mask

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In many cultures, masks are used in oral story telling. Many learning activities are described on this site that will help students learn aspects of story telling and the different ways various cultures used masks.
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Everything ESL

Everything Esl: Who's Inside the Mitten?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Lesson plan that will promote student's involvement and self-confidence in your ESL class and thus improve oral language skills. It provides downloads and links.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Variations in Language

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the use of variation in language when preparing a speech including directness, subjectivity and objectivity, abstraction, and accurate, reliable, unbiased, credible, and current sources.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Speaking and Listening in Content Area Learning

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Oral language development facilitates print literacy. In this article, we focus on the ways in which teachers can ensure students' speaking and listening skills are developed. We provide a review of effective classroom routines,...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Writing Workshop: Oral History

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Great online lesson that takes students through the entire writing process- from prompt to publishing. Online or printable versions of each step are available. The prompt asks students to interview people and write about their oral...
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Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Healthy Me: Let's Brush Our Teeth

For Students K - 1st
Shows the steps for brushing teeth properly. Book includes audio narration in 18 additional languages with text in English.
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CPALMS

Cpalms: The Lesson Formerly Known as "Wassssuuup"

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this instructional activity, learners are actively engaged in learning how formal and informal language are used in written and oral communications. Downloadable handouts are provided.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: The Components of Effective Vocabulary Instruction

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Effective vocabulary instruction begins with diverse opportunities for word learning: wide reading, high-quality oral language, word consciousness, explicit instruction of specific words, and independent word-learning strategies. This...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Finish My Sentence: Oral Blending Accuracy Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this classroom activity, the instructor creates a list of simple sentences that include a three or four letter word that the students are asked to blend. The instructor says the sentence and asks the student to help blend the letters...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Grammar Dol

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson provides students with Daily Oral Language activities both language arts as well as math.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Vocabulary Review/ Written & Oral Math Language Lesson Plan

For Teachers 1st Standards
SWBAT use math vocabulary to describe relationships between numbers.
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Broward Education Foundation

Broward Education Foundation: The Arts and Crafts of Storytelling [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In the Arts and Crafts of Storytelling, American folk heroes come to life, help students expand their vocabulary and increase knowledge of figurative language. Students identify figurative language like similes, idioms and hyperboles....
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Big Learners

Biglearners.com: ccss.ela literacy.l.k.1.c : Kindergarten English Language Arts

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Here is a collection of common core aligned worksheets for core standard L.K.1.C. A brief description of the worksheets is on each of the worksheet widgets. All worksheets are free to view, download, or print.
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Can Teach

Can Teach: Follow Directions and Draw

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
In this lesson plan students will practice and understand the importance of giving and listening to clear and concise directions. Lesson plan indicated for 3rd grade and above.

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